Jürgen Kessel

Jürgen Kessel
portrait
Date of birth	September 5, 1937
place of birth	Berlin , Germany
size	1.83 m
position	passing
societies
	SC Dynamo Berlin SG Rotation Prenzlauer Berg
National team
	GDR national team
successes
1961 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970	GDR master 4th place World Cup Czechoslovakia 4th place EM Turkey 4th place Olympic Games Mexico City Winner World Cup GDR Winner World Cup Bulgaria
As of May 14, 2015

Jürgen Kessel (born September 5, 1937 in Berlin ) is a former volleyball player from the GDR .

Kessel played in the 1960s for SC Dynamo Berlin , with whom he won the GDR championship in 1961 and was second behind SC Leipzig from 1962 to 1971 . After the time at SC Dynamo, he played for SG Rotation Prenzlauer Berg , with which he won the FDGB Cup in 1984, but the sports club teams were not in this competition.

In the GDR national team , the setter completed 155 international matches. From 1966 to 1968, the GDR selection was fourth at the season highlight three times in a row. In 1969 he won the Volleyball World Cup and the following year he was there when the GDR team won the title at the 1970 World Cup in Bulgaria. In the world championship team, Jürgen Kessel was the second oldest player behind his Berlin club mate Wolfgang Webner .

Kessel was a coach at SC Dynamo Berlin until 1990. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he worked for the post office until he retired in 2002.

Web links

• Jürgen Kessel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Forgotten high flyers (PDF file; 548 KByte)
• Volleyball world champion
• GDR champions in volleyball